If you can hold out until the 29th April the new intel processors (codename Ivy Bridge, will come out, they will cost the same as the current ones do and are projected to provide about 10-15% more performance.

Pyrea wrote:For an extra 20 bucks you can get the more powerful i5 2500K.

If you can hold out until the 29th April the new intel processors (codename Ivy Bridge, will come out, they will cost the same as the current ones do and are projected to provide about 10-15% more performance.

Pyrea wrote:For an extra 20 bucks you can get the more powerful i5 2500K.

If you can hold out until the 29th April the new intel processors (codename Ivy Bridge, will come out, they will cost the same as the current ones do and are projected to provide about 10-15% more performance.

Also just noticed that you chose a Sata II SSD instead of a Sata III. You'll see better performance with a Sata III, and because your mobo has Sata III slots there's pretty much no reason not to go with a Sata III except maybe a slight price difference.

If the box is for gaming you don't need 16Gb of ram, although ram is cheap these days so meh.

The motherboard is meh if you want to overclock, but unless you step up to a 2500k thats not an option anyway.

If you plan to game on this more than anything else i would suggest you drop one ram kit and throw that 60$ together with what the 550 costs and try to get a 560/560ti. If you plan to do something that actually requires 16 gigs of ram then by all means, do it, but dont do it for gaming, it will offer 0 improvement.

Edit: you could also easily step down to a corsair cx430 psu with that system. Id be shocked if you could get the rig you posted to consume much over 300 watts

Just keep the optical drive from your current machine. That and hard drives generally don't need "upgrading" when you get a new box, as long as they still work.

Awesome case choice, but that thing is MASSIVE. Seriously, I had to build an entirely new desk just to house that beast. Still, it's big enough for even my sausage fingers to get around everything in, but wire management is kind of a pain.

- I'm not Jesus, but I can turn water into Kool-Aid.- A Sergeant in motion outranks an officer who doesn't know what the hell is going on.- A demolitions specialist at a flat run outranks everybody.

Oh intel had the best ssd's... 18 months ago. Now they have old, slow sata2 ssd's, and sandforce based sata3 ssd's. If you are paying a premium for a more reliable controller, then i would look at the crucial m4. I have two sandforce 2200 based ssds in my system though, and love them.

So I've been talking to my local computer shop, and they talked me into getting an Intel Mobo, I can't remember which one off the top of my head. It's in the 150 price range though.

So I think what I'm gonna end up doing is Antec 900 case.500Gb WD Caviar black drive120Gb Intel 520 series SSD600W Power supply16Gb Kingston DDR3 RAM (I do AutoCAD Modeling for work, so being able to do it at home would be nice =])EVGA Nvidia GTX 550 Ti 1GB DDR5And some bluray/DVDRW Drive for 20 bucks. Oh, and the i5 2500k Sandy Bridge

The AsRock Extreme3 Gen3 is widely regarded one of the best value-for-money 1155 motherboard, clocking in at $121.99 on Newegg. The only thing it is missing is the internal USB 3.0 header, which is included on the Extreme4 for about 30 dollars more. Just throwing it out there.

You could knock another 10-20 bucks off the SSD by going for a Crucial M4 128GB instead of the intel one.

IB is rumoured to be coming out on the 17th April, at least that is when a bunch of shops are accepting pre-orders for. Others are saying 22nd April.

Some time in the future:Buy a dremel and make a window for the caseget some black tubing, silver/chrome compression fittings and waterblock it all up. Add a couple of white/light blue LED strips wrapped in muslin to soften the light a bit.

If you haven't already bought it and plan on using Windows 7 long term, it might be worth paying the extra $30 for Professional instead of Home Premium. I can certainly imagine needing more than 16gig of ram in four-five years. From the looks of it, I don't really want to touch Windows 8 or anything else they make in the Windows 8 mindset.